CONCORD, N.C -- The Al-Anabi Racing Team will have some new crew members at this weekend's Dollar General NHRA
Four-Wide Nationals, but they won't be the standard nitro engine experts. No, these two gentlemen
have special skills - they are United States Marines, and they will be serving as honorary crew
members with the Al-Anabi team this Sunday, it was announced today. The NHRA Mello Yello Drag
Racing Series visits zMAX Dragway near Charlotte this weekend for the fifth of 24 races making up
the 2013 season.

Mark Lunsford joined the military when he was 18. He spent four years in the United States Marine
Corps and now serves on Inactive Ready Reserve should the Marine Corps need him. He was stationed
at Camp Lejeune, N.C. for the entire time he was a fulltime Marine and was deployed to the Helmand
Province in Afghanistan in 2012. He recently moved back home to Pennsylvania where he is attending
college. He expects to graduate this spring with a degree in business management and automotive
technology

Ryan Duggan joined the Marine Corps in 2009 and graduated as a diesel mechanic in 2010. He has
been stationed at Camp Lejeune, N.C. with the 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion since
then. Last year, he deployed with a platoon of light armored vehicles in the 24th Marine
Expeditionary Unit and traveled on a U.S. Navy ship. He trained in such countries as Kuwait,
Jordan and Morocco among others. He returned to the United States in December and will soon return
home to South Dakota to enroll in the Southeast Technical Institute to study automotive and diesel
technology. He hopes to one day re-start his late father's drag racing team.

The silver and gold Al-Anabi Racing Top Fuel dragster teams will each host one of the honorary crew
members. Lunsford and Duggan will help Al-Anabi drivers Shawn Langdon and Khalid alBalooshi pack
their parachutes after runs, help clean parts and will perform any other tasks deemed appropriate
by crew chiefs Jason McCulloch and Brian Husen.

The Al-Anabi Racing Team operates out of multiple locations in both the United States and Qatar.
In the United States, the Brownsburg, Ind. based operation is a two-car NHRA Full Throttle Drag
Racing Series team that is managed by Alan Johnson Racing. Sheikh Khalid's initiative has created
increased international awareness of the nation of Qatar while highlighting the nation's
international sports outreach. Alan Johnson is a 14-time NHRA champion in various capacities
including crew chief, team owner and team manager. For additional information on the Al-Anabi
Racing Team, team manager Alan Johnson or drivers Khalid alBalooshi or Shawn Langdon, please visit
www.alanabiracing.com.